Word: elliott
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Three days after succeeding Lester Pearson as Canada's 15th Prime Minister, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, went before Parliament last week and, in his first formal appearance as leader of the country, dissolved Parliament and called for new general elections on June 25. Thus, ignoring considerable party opinion that he should prove himself to the voters before going to the polls, Trudeau decided to push ahead and try to capitalize on the political momentum that propelled him almost overnight from the Justice Ministry in Pearson's government into his country...
...Council membership is not "necessary." Trustees said that the students could effectively influence college government by participating in administrative subcommittees. A Trustee's suggestion that "student sentiment was accurately represented on the Council by Mrs. Bunting and Dean Elliott" was greeted with hoots and hisses...
...ANDREW WILLIAMS' KALEIDOSCOPE COMPANY (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Andy Williams takes a musical trip by blending psychedelic lights and today's sound with the help of Guest Stars Ray Charles, The Raelets, Burt Bacharach, Simon and Garfunkel, and Mama Cass Elliott...
...ministry so untried, so unfamiliar, so formless in his policies, yet so capable of capturing the imagination of so many Canadians." As he took over the leadership of the Liberal Party from Lester Pearson and prepared to succeed him as Canada's 15th Prime Minister next week, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 48, began slowly to give his policies a little more form-and himself something of a new image...
...same time, Bachelor Trudeau set out to shed his image as a carefree ladies' man and swinger. "I expect to start mounting some opposition to my former self," he said. "I will not be the Pierre Elliott Trudeau I used to be." The demands of his new job will see to that. Rather than leggy young women, he suddenly found himself surrounded by burly bodyguards. Instead of driving his powder blue Mercedes, he is now being chauffeured in a Chevrolet. And at week's end, forgoing the usual victory parties, he went into seclusion "somewhere on the continent...